I am the LORD your God, and you must keep yourselves holy, because I am holy.

I am the LORD who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy.

to say to the community of Israel, "Be holy, because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.

Even before the world was made, God had already chosen us to be his through our union with Christ, so that we would be holy and without fault before him. Because of his love

To God's people in Colossae, who are our faithful friends in union with Christ: May God our Father give you grace and peace.

God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness.

Instead, be holy in all that you do, just as God who called you is holy.

The scripture says, "Be holy because I am holy."